Alan Keyes has been siphoning money off the Minutemen. The irony

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/15084381.htm

Anti-immigration group questioned about spending

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The leadership of a civilian border patrol group is facing questions about how it has spent donations collected over the past 15 months.

Some members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say they have no idea how much money has been collected since the group was created in April 2005. They are also questioning what the money has been spent on and why it has been funneled through a northern Virginia-based charity headed by conservative commentator Alan Keyes.

The members, including one from Texas, say money promised for supplies such as food, fuel, radios, night-vision scopes, and binoculars never reached volunteers manning observation posts to spot and report illegal border crossers.

"This movement is much too important to be lost over a question of finances," Gary Cole, the Minutemen's former national director of operations, told The Washington Times. "We can't demand that the government be held accountable for failing to control the border if we can't hold ourselves accountable for the people's money."

The organization has not released any financial statements or fundraising records public since it was created. It also has sought and received extensions of its federal reporting requirements.

Several of the group's top lieutenants have either quit or have threatened to do so, saying requests to Minuteman President Chris Simcox for financial accountability have been ignored, The Times reported.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. If it walks like a scam, and it talks like a scam....n/t

[Beelzebud]

2. My best moment of the 2004 election:

Was voting for Barak Obama over this fool, Alan Keyes.

Obama hasn't been perfect, but he is compared this moron.

[acmejack]

4. That's setting the bar pretty darned low.

Alan Keye's is an embarrassment to humanity. Obama is like an eleven when compared to him. A true Statesman would be a fifty...

It strikes me as curious that these guys can't get an audit out prior to November 15th. Is there going to be this giant tsunami of shit in the form of all this toxic news of republicon wrong doing which they have manged to stall, delay, defer, and otherwise drag out until after election day?

[Beelzebud]

7. Well like it or not, that was the ONLY bright spot of the 2004 election.

[Cleita]

3. Chickens coming home to roost I take it?

Nothing like them fighting among themselves to dissolve a disagreeable organization with no outside help from anyone. :rofl:

[gratuitous]

5. Pfwsssssshhhh

That's the sound of the air going out of this PR balloon and cynical attempt by the Repressive Right to play on people's concerns over immigration. Gary Cole, their former (former already?) national director of operation is right: The Minutemen can't be a credible voice for government accountability if they have no accountability themselves.

Which means that Minutemen were flawed from the start: A cynical front operation that had a handful of True Believers in some of their leadership positions. The GOP way is to avoid accountability and avoid being held to the standards they so publicly and loudly espouse. One look at Karl Rove's continued employment by the corrupt Bush White House is enough to make that point.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. HA ha ! nt